Are productivity and stratification important to sapropel deposition? Microfossil evidence from late Pliocene insolation cycle 180 at Vrica, Calabria

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 190, Issue , 2003, Pages 243-255

  Negri, Alessandra ^a   Morigi, Caterina ^a   Giunta, Simona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Calcareous nannofossils; Foraminifera; Mediterranean; Paleoproductivity; Pliocene Pleistocene; Sapropel

Indexed keywords

FORAMINIFERA; NANOFOSSIL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOPRODUCTIVITY; PLEISTOCENE; PLIOCENE; SAPROPEL; STRATIFICATION;

ITALY;

COCCOLITHUS PELAGICUS; FORAMINIFERA; GLOBIGERINITA GLUTINATA; GLOBIGERINITA UVULA; GLOBIGERINOIDES RUBER; GLOBOROTALIA INFLATA; GLOBOROTALIA SCITULA; HAPTOPHYCEAE; NEOGLOBOQUADRINA PACHYDERMA; PSEUDOEMILIANIA LACUNOSA;

EID: 0037440504     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-0182(02)00608-9     Document Type: Article

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